Anyone who seriously reads
newspapers and regularly watches international news would agree that we are
living in an age of unprecedented swiftness.
Things are changing everywhere with a brisk pace and events are
unfolding with an urgent rush. Different characters are entering and exiting
the world stage in rapid succession. Each act of the global drama is
instantaneously merging with the next. Simultaneously, our daily lives have
also undergone an unprecedented acceleration.
Due to all this celerity, most of
us are either unable to connect different world events and appreciate their
significance, or we are so wrapped up in our own immediate problems that we
have simply no time left to brood over international affairs. But our inability
to comprehend the global scenario — or our total naïveté concerning the changes
at the international level — does not, of course, diminish the importance of
these events in any way or obviate the need to study them deeply by placing
them in their historical setting. We must remain in touch with the socio-
political developments in the world, as ignorance can often lead to extinction.
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